Professor Dan G Zirker

Professor of Political Science

About Dan

Professor Daniel Zirker gained his BA and MA from the University of Montana, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta. He was the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, 2004-2011, and has been professor of political science since 2004. He previously taught and was an administrator at Minnesota State University, the University of Idaho and Montana State University-Billings. A Past (1999-2005) and current (2018-2020) chair/president of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society (RC#24) of the International Political Science Association, and former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Northeast Brazil, he was a Fulbright senior lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Constantine Danopoulos and Daniel Zirker (eds.), The Military and Society in the Former Eastern Bloc (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999).

Expertise

Latin American politics; African politics; Brazilian politics; US politics; Canadian politics; New Zealand politics; ethnicity and politics in divided societies; civil-military relations; security studies; terrorism and political violence; US international relations; democratization and democracy; corruption and the remediation of corruption.

Recent Publications

Zirker, D., & Waisman, C. (2018). Argentina and Brazil: Contrasting the impacts of populism and social democracy on military institutions. In 25th IPSA World Congress of Political Science. Conference held at Brisbane, Australia.

Zirker, D. (2018). The prosecution of corruption as a political strategy. In International Public Policy Association (IPPA) Conference. Conference held at University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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